Secret Documents Solution

All the controversy surrounding the handling of secret documents has me concerned enough to provide a much-needed solution. I am totally disgusted by the lack of intelligence regarding the entire SCIF application for securing this nation’s secret documents. As a matter of standards and protocol, every secret or classified document should have an archivist attached to that numbered paperwork.

What I mean in layman terms is to say that when the President of the United States, Vice President, military brass, NSA, Homeland Security Director, etc.…request any secret secured document, it necessarily must be transported from the archives to the person making the request. Then, as the document is being read by the requester, the archivist handler of that document must keep their eyes on said document for the entire time it takes the requester to read the document. After the requester has finished reading the secret document, the archivist takes immediate physical possession of it and returns it to the archives.

Why would anyone, no matter their clearance level or position, need to retain a secret document? If they are not smart enough to read, understand, then later discuss the dimensions of said secret document then they are definitely not intelligent enough to have their request granted in the first place. What do they need the document for? To copy it? To make notes about it? To show it to others or share its information with uncleared entities? No? Then, why do they get to take it to a SCIF or home? Why would their staff accidentally box it with unclassified documents as a mistake? In my evaluation of this situation, they have no reason for keeping the document longer than it takes for them to read and digest the information it contains. If they need to discuss its contents, then I am sure they are smart enough to remember what they read. Correct?

An archivist’s job is to archive documents with numbers identifying that document and to securely store the document for future retrieval and reference. They are not supposed to read the document unless they are in charge of description necessary for numbering and processing into the archives. Otherwise, the archivist simply delivers the archive to the requester, waits for it to be read and digested as they keep their eyes on the document the whole time. Then the archivist immediately takes back possession of the document and then they take it back to the archives where it belongs.

Listen, people. It does not take a genius to understand that classified and secret documents should not be strewn from one side of the country to another because someone decided to keep them either for nefarious purposes, or to make a profit, or simply because they forgot about it, or mistakenly shuffled this very important paperwork amongst ordinary junk mail. Get a grip on your governmental duties and immediately remedy your procedures to implement this very simple solution keeping any country’s secret information from leaking like a bad plumbing job.

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